I'm making progress

I started and/or finished a few quilt tops this past week. I wish I  could say that I  completed a few, but that would have involved using Mo'e but that hasn't been happening.

I did finish the quilt top using the 'leftover' triangles from the 'Buzzsaw' quilt top, but apparently I've forgotten to take a pic.  Maybe later.

Next up was one I've been wanting to do for several months.

That's all there is to it...five inch blocks.  The colored ones were from 2 charm packs, but I had to cut the white blocks from yardage and that was what was holding me back from doing it.  It wasn't as bad/boring as I'd told myself it would be.

and it's  grasshopper approved!  Btw that's the first grasshopper I've seen this year- kinda weird. 

Next up was this project...which had also been on my 'wanting to do' list for several months.  I'm not sure I'm done with it yet, though.  I'm thinking about adding a black border - maybe 3" - all around; it needs to be a bit larger than it is right now.

OOPS!!  I just noticed that I posted the wrong pic above... I saw the mis-sewn block as I was taking the photo and took the top down and corrected it immediately then took another photo, which is what I THOUGHT I posted.  

Yesterday, before going to our family reunion, I dug into my Orange scraps and made my Aug. RSC2022. 

Then, it was on to working on another 'want to do someday' quilt...one that I've been wanting to do for YEARS.

I bought a couple of fat quarter bundles from The Quilt Show that were perfect to use in this quilt.

There are 9 fqs in the bundle but I only need 8... and only need one of the bundles so I'll have them for another project.

Here's what I did after I came home from the reunion.  Only the faces have been appliqued down - will wait to do the eyes and noses after I finish the other four blocks so I don't have to keep changing threads.

And I guess that's it for now. I have a couple other non-quilting projects in the works, but nothing in the 'ready to share' phase yet.

Take care

Stay dry 

Ttyl

I'm addicted

There hasn't been a lot of sewing being done around here....some, but not a lot.  There's been more fabric and pattern acquisition though (like I really NEED any more of either); I'm beginning to believe that my addiction isn't to quilting as much as it is to the collecting of fabrics and patterns.  I think I need an intervention.  But, on the bright side, it's keeping me off the street corners and out of the bars so it must be a good thing, right?

Blocks and rows sewn together on my "Buzzsaw"...a Craftsy.com class taught by Kimberly Eimo.

It's not very big, but it will be closer to the size I want once I add borders.  

In making the Buzzsaw block, you draw a line from corner on the back of a pair of 10" blocks and sew on that line ( a concept that gave me a little grief), then cut 1/4" away from that seam/ stitching line.  You only use that part of the 10" square...which seems like a big waste of fabrics until later when she shows how to turn them into pinwheel blocks, which I finished doing last night; today's plan is to finish squaring up those blocks before sewing them into rows and then a quilt top.

During all of this, I found a pattern that I had used many years ago, but I don't know what happened to that quilt.  Contacted my daughter's who said that their quilts were packed away but that it didn't look like one they had. 

It was starting to bug me, so I pulled out all of the quilts from my closet and went through them one by one - nope, not there either so it must have been one that I gave to a charity.  Will just have to make a second one - to keep this time.

It's an Edyita Sitar pattern ...I  just needed the paper triangle pieces again, so I ordered them and they arrived yesterday.

Since I had all of my quilts out and have no intention of keeping most of them ( will talk about that later), I  decided to go through them and separate them into keep/ don't keep piles.  

Here's the don't keep pile...

Sometime this week, I  want to work on my Aug RSC2022...and still have a COVID quilt block to finish.

This is the one I finished the other day; just trying to decide how/if I want to fill in the letters.

My sunflower "gift" from the critters my son and I feed.  Bought some new pots yesterday so I have some transplanting to do sometime this week.

Right now,, Buddy is letting me know that it's (past)time for his  morning walk - and here I sit, still in my nightgown.  Guess I'd better go.

Take care

TTYL